Child Labour / Child Trafficking - For Labour / For Sexual Exploitation
The International Labor Organization states that not all work done by children should be classified as child labor that is to be targeted for elimination. Children’s or adolescents’ participation in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their schooling, is generally regarded as being something positive. This includes activities such as helping their parents around the home, assisting in a family business or earning pocket money outside school hours and during school holidays. These kinds of activities contribute to children’s development and to the welfare of their families; they provide them with skills and experience, and help to prepare them to be productive members of society during their adult life.
The term “child labor” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to work that:
- is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and
- interferes with their schooling by:
- depriving them of the opportunity to attend school;
- obliging them to leave school prematurely; or
- Requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
National strategy for street working children
Author:Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs Martyrs and Disabled
Child Labor in Afghanistan
Author:ICF International,2008
Findings on the worst forms of child labor
Author:International Labor Affairs
Child Soldiers in Afghanistan
Author:Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children
Author:Human Rights Report ,2008